Trigger warnings, colleges, and the ‘Swaddled Generation’

Washington Post ^ | May 19, 2015 | Kathleen Parker

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Those accustomed to reading or listening only to liberal commentators may not be aware of “trigger warnings” and “safe zones” on college campuses.

It seems that mostly conservative sites and writers are concerned with the increasingly draconian suppression of free speech on college campuses. But then, it is mostly conservative writers and speakers who are treated as though they’re bringing the Ebola virus rather than contrarian ideas to the sensitive ears of what we may as well name the “Swaddled Generation.”

A trigger warning is usually conveyed on a sign carried or posted near the auditorium where a speech is to be given, alerting students to the possibility that the speaker may express an idea that could trigger an emotional response. A discussion about campus rape statistics, for example, might cause a rape victim to suffer.....

.....Purdue President Mitch Daniels laid out the stakes in a telephone interview: “If universities want to embarrass themselves with their behavior, allowing people to be shouted down or disinvited, that’s their problem. But if they’re spawning a bunch of little authoritarians with an inverted view of our basic freedoms, that’s everybody’s problem.”.....

[tacticalogic]

ANY word ending in ...igger is dangerous to use these days!

That figgers.

[NFHale]

It once ran amok in Fiji
with a closet queen that called itself Gigi
Got caught in a rut in some grass-covered hut
now it’s got fleas all over it’s peepee...

[GOPsterinMA]

W...T...WOW!!! WOWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

[Elsie]

Kill them little buggers with an icepick!

[NFHale]

You know...

I even amaze the hell outta myself sometimes...

Hahah!!!

[GOPsterinMA]

I blacked out for a few seconds after reading these pieces of prose.

Literary gold, flowing like the waters of the mighty Mississippi.